User guide

Chapter 7 Make image adjustments 260
3 With the Crop tool selected, drag a rectangle over the image to exclude the areas that you want
to trim.
A Crop overlay appears on the image with resize handles, and the trimmed edges are dimmed.
Drag across the photo
with the Crop tool.
A dark overlay is placed
over the trimmed areas.
4 Do any of the following:
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To set the aspect ratio of the Crop overlay: Choose an aspect ratio from the Aspect Ratio pop-up
menu, or set a custom aspect ratio by entering values in the Width and Height elds.
Choose a standard
aspect ratio for the crop
from the Aspect Ratio
pop-up menu.
Note: Aperture interprets small (single- and double-digit) numbers as inches and larger
numbers as pixels.
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To change the orientation of the crop: Click the Switch Aspect Ratio button.
Click the Switch Aspect
Ratio button to change
the orientation to portrait
or landscape.
The values in the Width and Height elds are reversed, and the Crop overlay is updated to
show the new orientation. (Entering a number in the Width eld that is smaller than the
number in the Height eld sets a portrait orientation. Entering a larger number in the Width
eld sets a landscape orientation.)
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To show cropping guides within the Crop overlay: Select the “Show guides” checkbox.
Select the “Show guides”
checkbox to display cropping
guides over the photo.
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